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Ask HN: Is HN Hacked?
I had HN open and the chrome tab showed the audio sign, and some voice was running as if someone is talking... is HN Hacked?
- LinuxBender 4y agoDid you open the web developer console and capture the URL that is being loaded? If you happened to capture the URL's I would suggest saving the logs as plain text and emailing as an attachment to hn@ycombinator.com for dang to review.
- evex 4y agoBy the time I opened DevTools the audio has already stopped, I searched for video/audio html tags, but found nothing
- qikInNdOutReply 4y agoReader for a site element opened and read the title? Do you have the screen-reader addon added? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/screen-reader/kgejglhpjiefppelpmljglcjbhoiplfn https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/screen-reader/kgej... https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9032490 https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9032490
- evex 4y agoHey, I don't have any screen-reader turned on on my chrome or my machine
- tech234a 4y agoAre you running any browser extensions?
- evex 4y agoIt happened when I'm writing you this comment. Yes I have browser extensions.
- mandeepj 4y agoMaybe a bug in Chrome
- schlauerfox 4y agoCheck what sites permissions are, what can send 'notifications' to you and clear them out. That is a big source of these things.
- peanut_worm 4y agoWas it some Text-to-speech feature in your browser maybe? edit: You may be able to find the audio file in your browser cache
- lagrange77 4y agoWhat was the voice saying? If it was not understandable, why?
- martinflack 4y agoWhich version of Chrome and OS?
- evex 4y agoWin10 & Chrome Version 105.0.5195.102 (Official Build) (32-bit)
- quickthrower2 4y agoAre you sure it was HN, or some similar misspelled domain?
- evex 4y ago100% it is HN
- evex 4y agoUPDATE: turns out this is happening not only on HN in my browser, so definitely its from my side.